Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: To make a fighter you gotta strip them down to bare wood: you can't just tell 'em to forget everything you know if you gotta make 'em forget even their bones... make 'em so tired they only listen to you, only hear your voice, only do what you say and nothing else... show 'em how to keep their balance and take it away from the other guy... how to generate momentum off their right toe and how to flex your knees when you fire a jab... how to fight backin' up so that the other guy doesn't want to come after you. Then you gotta show 'em all over again. Over and over and over... till they think they're born that way.

Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: All fighters are pig-headed some way or another: some part of them always thinks they know better than you about something. Truth is: even if they're wrong, even if that one thing is going to be the ruin of them, if you can beat that last bit out of them... they ain't fighters at all.

Momma, you take Mardell and JD and get home 'fore I tell that lawyer there that you were so worried about your welfare you never signed those house papers like you were supposed to. So anytime I feel like it I can sell that house from under your fat, lazy, hillbilly ass. And if you ever come back, that's exactly what I'll do.

Father Horvak: What's confusing you this week?Frankie Dunn: Oh, it's the same old "one God-three God" thing.Father Horvak: Frankie, most people figure out by kindergarten it's about faith.Frankie Dunn: Is it sort of like Snap Crackle and Pop, all rolled into one big box?Father Horvak: You're standing outside my church, comparing God to Rice Krispies?

Frankie Dunn: You forgot the rule. Now, what is the rule?Maggie Fitzgerald: Keep my left up?Frankie Dunn: Is to protect yourself at all times. Now, what is the rule?Maggie Fitzgerald: Protect myself at all times.Frankie Dunn: Good. Good.

Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Frankie likes to say that boxing is an unnatural act, that everything in boxing is backwards: sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back... But step back too far and you ain't fighting at all.